Top 60 Ben Stokes Quotes

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.

I think sometimes I have been drawn into trying to be too aggressive too early. I have learnt that I can give myself time.

Being the player who wants to impact every game is what I’ve always tried to be.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

As players ourselves, to inspire other players to do what we do is awesome.

You can’t be happy about anything after a 5-0 loss.

After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.

2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before that.

I don’t think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There’s only going to be one winner there.

Cricket and family are my life.

T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You’ve got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don’t go for many. You have to take it as it comes.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There’s always doubt in my mind.

You are never the complete article but the feeling you get when people come up to you and say ‘thank you for the great summer’ and inspiring children is such a great feeling.

It’s one of the greatest sporting environments you can be in, the first morning of an Ashes series. It’s hard to explain, you can only really explain it when you’re out there. It’s awesome.

Being an instinctive player is great but there’s time in the past where I’ve let how I’m playing at the time affect me, thinking I can play some big shots and I’d be alright.

Just being in the whole environment around the IPL, around the people that you ge to play with and against means it’s going to be really, really good.

There has always been sledging in cricket.

I always look to perform with the bat and the ball and do good for my team.

It’s all good being there for people when things are going well and smoothly but what really comes through is how you operate with someone when they need you the most.

It’s always great when games can go to day five.

You don’t have niggles when you’re 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.

You just keep your feet on the floor. I never feel I get too high and I never feel I get too low about things. Everyone else may deal with things like that differently but that is just how I go about it.

The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.

I’d rather be remembered as a player who came on and impacted a lot of games for England. If I ever take a selfish thought-process of, ‘I’m doing this for myself,’ then things will be seriously wrong.

One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it’s a lot faster. You don’t get as much break. You are running a lot harder.

There is nothing better than being there at the end and getting your team over the line.

I love playing against these guys who have the same attitude to the game that I have.

I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes.

I don’t know how you work on concentration. You are either born with it or you’re not. And I was definitely not born with it.

You can’t feel your way into an Ashes series, you have to be switched on from ball one. That’s just me in a nutshell.

Jofra makes any team better. He is the most naturally gifted bowler I’ve seen and I don’t think he realises how good he is. Some of the things he can do at the click of a finger are just ‘wow.’ It’s pretty special to watch.

You do what you have to do to get an advantage.

We’ve got to be good enough to put runs on board.

Captaincy did not change me as a player whatsoever, when I had the ball in my hand, I operated in the same manner like I always do.

I like to be aggressive.

As professional sportsmen at the top of the game we do have worries. We do think of the worst and that’s absolutely fine. There’s no weakness in feeling like that.

For me it is about always trying to find ways to improve and get better.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

You can’t just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

Never give up. It’s never over until it’s over.

You can do well one day and then not do well the other and you are not as good as everyone says.

I used to be guilty of trying to get a wicket every ball, but I’ve learned the game is not that easy. That’s come with experience.

You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.

For anyone to question our fight or desire I think is wrong. They should know how much it means to play for England – how much to wear the Three Lions on your chest.

It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

Being able to work with specialist coaches in Twenty20 cricket, I think my bowling has gone up another level.

I don’t want to be remembered as the guy who had a fight in the street.

I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I’m not necessarily a form player, more of an in-the-moment player.

I’ve had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think ‘why do you think you can say that to me? You don’t know me.’

On the field, MS epitomises calmness and, from a cricket point of view, has the best angle in terms of field placements.

We are all about the equality through society and sport.

The older you get the harder you’ve got to train.

It’s not as if I ever left the pitch thinking ‘I wish I’d given a bit more today.’ You were always going to get everything from me.

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.

I am always trying to get better as a player, no matter how things are going, always trying to expand my game and look into how I can hit more areas or bowl different balls or whatever it is.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.

I sort of know my role with the ball but with the bat I’ve been up and down the order quite a few times.